The Arizona champion., 1887-04-23
WEEKLY CHAMPION.
SATURDAY, APRIL g, ISsS.
rHR WORLD IN BRIEF.

lsIhcs p' oiaihC iS Sl~uudily lIh' proving frsm his recent illness.
 In Sicily the roof of a church fell in and killed forty of the worshippers.
 The kormens have inaugurated m snti-polygamy branch of the church.
 Faith headers now call themselves christian scientists, But it is a mis- nemer.
 Geronimo IS raising cabbage is Florida. He formerly raised hair in Arizona.
 The New York world claims to have the largest circulation now in the country.
 A California horse slid 300 feet down a mountain and landed in a snow drift unhurt.
 The interstate commerce law won { suit "Young America" because 1t will wipe out the travelling circus.
 Boiled down into simple language the creed of the Anarchists is, No soap. No government. No God.
 A defaulting bank cashier has been beheaded in China. The offence is not az common there as it is here.
 Brigadier General Olando B. Will csx was placed on the retired list on Saturday last, he having attained the age of o4 years.
 Governor Hill, of New York, has vetoed the Crosby high license bill and signed his political death war rant by doing so.
 Chief Justice David Carter, of the supreme court of the District of Co., lumbia, died at hi, home in Washing ton on Sunday last.
 Efforts are being made to induce Gladstone to visit Ireland and make a speech there. He would have a royal Irish welcome,
 Moody and Sankey have settled down to business in Chicago. They have invested Ssso. 900 in an institu- tion to train preachers.
 Nebraska has a new paper called The Weeping Water Republican. Now let the other side start "The Whisky Drinking Democrat.
 The gigantic system of robberies perpetrated by the employe of the Pennsylvania railroad have turned out to be greater than was estimated.
 A train on the San Gabriel and Lo, Angeles road ran ints a carriage on Saturday in which four people were seated, Mrs. Cox was instantly kill. cd.
 Twenty kegs of powder exploded at Beuna Vista few days ago. The pieces of six men were picked up and seven more were badly damaged but will live.
 The Barracks which are the head quarters of the salvation army in Lon don, England, have burned down. Fortunately the salvation army was not at home.
 The bridge accident near Bcstsn will cost the Boston and Providence railroad nearly million dollars. A new bridge might have been built for ta5,ooo.
 The committee for entertaining the G. A. R. at the next St. Louis en- !campment began collecting last week in that city, and got over SIoo, 900 in the first three days.
 Goldensen, the murderer of Mamie Kelly at San Francisco, has been sen fenced to death and there is but little ,deubt that this specimen of Frisco hoodlumism will be hanged.
 When John T. Raymond was at San Colyille's funeral only a few weeks ago, he said to his friend Fred Maeder, "I guess I'll be the next" and 1t proved to be the case.
 Joseph Smith, son of the original Mormon Smith, is making crusade against his own church on the polyg- smy question. Joseph shows wisdom in making a virtue of necessity.
 Bogus milk is now being made, the principal ingredients are glycerine, citrate Q! potassium and sugar. A factory jp these parts would turn out an improvement on some of the milk.
 Alfred Torrance, wealthy Ameri. can, was killed while riding in ,ieeple chase near Paris, last week. hr. Torrance, who has lived in France for many years, was neph- sw of the late W. II. Vanderbilt,
 When Herr Most, the leader of the Anarchists was released from prison inc other day and addressed meet ing of his followers, his statement, |, "Dey drofe me to york;" was receiv. ed with howls of indignation, but when he went on to say, "Dey eien drefe nc to wash myseli," pandems- nium broke loose.
 Abraham Lincoln's body was last week placed in it's final resting place, after having been secretly hid for ten years. When the attempt was make to steal the body it was given into the keeping oi guard ot honor who removed it and no one outside of their number have known of it's whereabouts, as they were sworn to secrecy. Thousands upsn thousands of uncovered heads have bowed rev erenly before the sarcophsgus sup posed to contain the remains of our uaarArraA D....Aa.. l...I. -.